Pork supply to meet market demand by Tết festival

The price of pork is expected to increase in the last months of 2019 and before the Lunar New Year in 2020 because African swine fever has caused the supply of pork to drop.

HCM City to keep pork prices steady despite supply slump The management of the HCM City market stabilisation programme for essential goods has decided not to increase pork prices though market prices continue to rise.

​​​​​​​Travel firms begin selling Tết tours Travel companies in HCM City are selling package tours for a seven-day Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday start on January 23 (or the 29th day of the last lunar month).

Construction of Mỹ Thuận Bridge 2 to begin by early 2020

Nguyễn Đức Kiên, vice chairman of the National Assembly's Economics Committee, has asked Tiền Giang and Vĩnh Long provinces to complete land clearance and compensation for residents in areas near the Mỹ Thuận 2 Bridge project by the year-end.

PM okays seven-day holiday for Tết 2020 Holidays for Tết 2020 will start from Thursday, January 23, 2020 (or the 29th day of the last lunar month of the Year of the Pig) to the end of Wednesday, January 29, 2020 (or the fifth day of the first lunar month of the Year of the Rat).

MoIT to ensure enough goods for Tết festival next year

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) will ensure the supply-demand balance of essential commodities for the Tết (Lunar New Year) of 2020 and implement a programme on keeping goods in stock for market stabilisation.

Artist's new works depict his family's life in an 'attic'

Đinh Văn Sơn of HCM City is displaying his latest paintings and sculptures about the life of a young couple at the city’s Fine Arts Museum.

Man builds bridges to help the poor

Nguyễn Minh Lương, a 71-year-old man living in Long Xuyên City in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang, is often away from home all day to help the poor.

Writing to show love for Hà Nội

A romantic story featuring life of a French man in Hà Nội written in Vietnamese will be published by Nhã Nam Culture & Communications JSC next week. Author of Phố Nhà Thờ (The Church Street), Marko Nikolic, from Serbia, has been living in Việt Nam for three years and spent the last year writing the novel.

Secluded Islet's only household offers homestay for visitors

When Nguyễn Văn Long was 26 years old, he moved to Năm Bầu Islet in the middle of a lake in the southern province of Đồng Nai. Nothing unusual about that, but at the time he was the only person there.